The beauty of fate 2024 oil on linen 145cm x 132cm
John Bicknell is a painter whose work in the past thirty years has crossed between abstraction , figuration, film, the voice and performance. His work during the eighties and nineties centred on an exploration of abstraction and landscape. More recent work has developed a figurative narrative drawn from wide ranging sources and influences including film, theatre, the history of painting, and photographs of conflict.
The images are melancholic and humorous, representing human folly, which express the paradox of beauty and brutality in life and death. He has worked in collaboration with other artists, film-makers and actors.
John Bicknell lives and works in Athens, Greece. Recent exhibitions include Tryst, Torrence Art Museum Los Angeles (Group) 2025, Athena. Showroomshmitt, Karlsruhe (Group) 2025, Collage remix 2 Fokianou Athens (Group) 2024, Host , with Erika Winstone Fokianou Athens (Solo) 2023 Let there br light : Studio Amwell London: Curated by Laura Jacobs (Group) 2023. Flower power 2 FokiaNou Athens: Curated by Mary Cox and Panayiotis Voulgaris (Group) 2023 Suspended Disbelief: Phoenix Athens: Curated by Dimitris Yin (Group) 2023. Supermarket International ArtFair Stockholm: (Group) 2021. Kypselian Salon , Snetha Residency Athens (Group) 2021. Life is elsewhere : We need Books Athens : Curated by Chris Hawtin (Group) 2021.
The burning ship and the dead poet, Lefas Municipal Gallery Athens (Solo) 2018. Never below Zero, Snetha Residency (Group) 2018. Defiance and Tolerance , Fokia Nou Athens 2017 (Solo), .
The images are melancholic and humorous, representing human folly, which express the paradox of beauty and brutality in life and death. He has worked in collaboration with other artists, film-makers and actors.
John Bicknell lives and works in Athens, Greece. Recent exhibitions include Tryst, Torrence Art Museum Los Angeles (Group) 2025, Athena. Showroomshmitt, Karlsruhe (Group) 2025, Collage remix 2 Fokianou Athens (Group) 2024, Host , with Erika Winstone Fokianou Athens (Solo) 2023 Let there br light : Studio Amwell London: Curated by Laura Jacobs (Group) 2023. Flower power 2 FokiaNou Athens: Curated by Mary Cox and Panayiotis Voulgaris (Group) 2023 Suspended Disbelief: Phoenix Athens: Curated by Dimitris Yin (Group) 2023. Supermarket International ArtFair Stockholm: (Group) 2021. Kypselian Salon , Snetha Residency Athens (Group) 2021. Life is elsewhere : We need Books Athens : Curated by Chris Hawtin (Group) 2021.
The burning ship and the dead poet, Lefas Municipal Gallery Athens (Solo) 2018. Never below Zero, Snetha Residency (Group) 2018. Defiance and Tolerance , Fokia Nou Athens 2017 (Solo), .